All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-03 – Page 4

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    monitor

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Those of you working on the coal-face, so to speak, or near it, or in a rather plush office from which you can almost smell it, may well be cocooned from the deluge of serious issues that hit the NHS daily. And what a mass there is: if only there ...

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    The net wears thin

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    COMMENT

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    In with the new

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    THE NHS PLAN An essay of good intentions that could go wrong or the start of a new relationship with the private sector? Two health policy experts give their views

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    Wicked steps to partnership

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    OVER THE WALL

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    Patients are doing it for themselves

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan says bye bye CHCs, hello patient advocates - but one community group is ahead of the pack.Tash Shifrin reports

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    in person

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Robert Hinton is the new director of finance at West Midlands Ambulance Service trust.He previously worked for South Birmingham Community Health trust as director of finance and information, having joined the NHS in 1981 from industry.

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    This is your pilot speaking

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The national plan envisages that a third of all GPs will be on personal medical services contracts by 2002.But a study of pilot schemes reveals that not all are using the freedoms and flexibilities offered by the legislation. June Hunt ington and colleagu

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    Trading places

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The idea that nurses could retrain to be doctors might have been unthinkable at one time. But the national plan includes provision for nurses to retrain mid-career without starting from scratch. Some have already made the switch. Janet Snell reports

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    Testing positive

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    NHS chief executives rushed to read the NHS plan as it was published on the Internet, before giving HSJ their first reactions

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Mad Pride did not adopt its name without a bit of soul searching.

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    Wordperfect

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    A hand reaches out to touch one of 10 panels carved by Rebecca Walls for West Dorset Hospitals trust to celebrate the millennium.